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Using Google Chrome with SharePoint 2007
by Andy on September 2nd, 2008
It’s release day of Google Chrome BETA for windows (http://www.google.com/chrome - Tuesday 02nd September 2008), so, as a proper SharePoint addict you’re gagging to know if Google Chrome works with MOSS/WSS 3.0 right? Ok maybe it’s just me!
I’ve been using Chrome now for about 30 minutes and went straight to work testing it against SharePoint 2007 & WSS 3.0. I’ve been testing the user experience using my current client’s corporate MOSS deployment and my own private WSS 3.0 site.
So far there seems to be few differences in the rendering of the pages adn i’m pleased to find that using ‘more accessible mode’ seems to work the same as it does in IE 7 & FireFox 3.
Here are my findings so far:
- ‘My Links’ down arrow icon does not display where it should.
- ‘Upload Multiple Documents’ is missing from the ‘Upload’ option within a Document Library.
- ‘Connect to client’ is the option for ‘Connect to Outlook’ in Chrome.
- ‘Edit in Datasheet’ and ‘Open with Windows Explorer’ are missing from the ‘Actions’ option within a Document Library.
- On a page that IE would normally provide a ‘This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?’ security prompt, I do not receive the same prompt in Chrome (I’m using the default settings in Chrome).
- Things get very interesting in Chrome when you place a page into Design mode; try ‘edit’ on a web part you’ll probably find that the web part options don’t appear where you’d expect them to. Also, web part ‘edit’ choices that show as greyed out in IE don’t even show in Chrome.
- The ‘Content Editor’ web part in IE gives you the option to launch the ‘Rich Text Editor’ and the ‘Source Editor’, but in Chrome the ‘Rich Text Editor’ is not even an option on display and as for the ‘Soure Editor’, well this renders as a small text frame within the Web Part modify settings rather than as an option to launch a new window to make edits!
I’m sure I’m going to find many more issues using SharePoint with Google Chrome, but I have to take into account that this is the first Beta release.
If you’re conducting more extensive testing of accessing SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 using Google Chrome BETA for windows and notice other issues, then please do add your comments to this blog post.
Tags: Browers, SharePoint 2007